IHF sadly announces the disparition of Dr. Juljan Dieter Czapski, Vice-President and governing council member of the IHF from 1991 to 1997

Dr. Juljan Dieter Czapski has passed away on January 12th. Dr. Czapski was IHF Vice-President and Governing Council member for Brazil from 1991-1997, during which period he was also Technical Director of FENAESS (Brazilian National Federation of Health Services Establishments). As IHF Vice-President, Dr. Czapski represented the IHF at Pan-American Health conferences as well as Regional Committee meetings of the World Health Organization.

Doctor, Public Health Specialist, the creator of health plans in Brazil and governments, companies and health strategies and planning organizations consultant, Dr. Juljan was renowned as a great visionary and health thinker. He provided great services in the health area for over 50 years.

He has borned in Poland, 1925. Juljan Czapski and your family arrived in Brazil in 1941, running from the German persecution in the 2nd World War. Dr. Juljan started to study late, but was dedicated and brilliant. In 1949, he started his course at the Medicine School of the University of Sao Paulo, where he graduated in 1954. Then came a Doctorate, a Hospital Administration specialization and another graduation in Public Health.

Museum of Modern Art
While studying, Juljan worked as your wife's assistant, Alice Brill, artist and photographer, whom he married in 1949. And involved himself so much with the world of arts and culture that participated, at last, in the founding of the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, wich was director.

Creator of Health Plans
Juljan Czapski was a doctor from the Clinicals' Hospital; founder and director of the Central Polyclinic and directed the Sao Jorge Hospital, in São Paulo. Your health vision, however, has always been one step ahead. Idealistic and thinker, it was him that formulated and developed the concept of Health Plans and Medical Group. Implemented a new idea in his own company, the Central Polyclinic. And their first client was the Volkswagen of Brazil.
The idea soon grown up. Then it has borned the first franchise of health plans, the Central Polyclinic of Porto Alegre, that still exists. From the success of this initiative came the private health companies that we know today and also the very Brazillian Association of Medical Group - ABRANGE. Dr. Juljan participated in its foundation in 1966, and was its chairman for 10 years.

Internacional Operation
Juljan Czapski runned throught Brazil and the world, participating in hundreds of congresses and meetings that debated proposals to improve health. He was the only Brazillian at the International Conference of Alma-Ata, at the extincted Soviet Union, in 1978. This historic meeting resulted in the concept of Health that is still valid nowadays.
Throughout his career, he won free passage between parliamentarians, ministers and presidents. In Brazil and abroad, attended the main bodies of research and health policy. He was Vice-President of the International Hospital Federation and a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London. He also incorporated the Municipal and Stadual councils of Sao Paulo. And advises companies, organizations and governments.

Sustainability Project
Long before sustainability becomes a global priority, Dr. Juljan had already awakened to the need to preserve the environment. Since 1986, he became the President of the Ituana Association of Environmental Protection, in Itu/Sao Paulo, dedicated to environmental education.

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